Month: June 2004

Day Nineteen on the Motor-Sail from Down There to Up Here We set out from Port Penn around 10 am, after a hearty breakfast of pancakes. By sunset, we’d reached the bottom of the Delaware River and by nightfall we’d doubled Cape May. From here we struck out into the ocean. The bright casino lights […]

Day Sixteen in the Movement from Winter Quarters to Summer Quarters Monday morning, we refueled at the gas dock in Annapolis and took on fresh water for our final offshore leg. We would have liked to pick up some milk, cereal, and fresh vegetables, but they were astonishingly unavailable within walking distance of downtown in […]

Day Fourteen Tripping Over the Eastern Seaboard We ate pancakes again for breakfast and went ashore to take in the Sunday New York Times and latest soccer results at a local coffee shop. After lounging there for the better part of the morning and into the afternoon, we looked for a grocery store in town […]

Day Thirteen Floating in the Direction of the North Pole We slept in until almost 9 am after a fun night and had pancakes in the already warm morning. Our anchorage afforded us a broad view of the Chesapeake Bay where hundreds of sailboats were already out. The vessels represented a huge variety of sizes […]

Day Twelve on the Vicious Voyage to Cold Water and Mosquitoes The 48 hours on the Chesapeake between Fleets Bay and Annapolis were the worst of the trip. The powers that be started to stick it to us around 7 pm on Thursday with a storm that dwarfed the blow in Belhaven. And unlike Belhaven, […]

Day 10 on the Odyssey from the Peninsula to the Cape Southern oppulence in all its splendor We embarked from Hampton before 9 a.m. and motored out into the Chesapeake, where we cut the engine and sailed on a few long tacks across the Bay. We fancied ourselves to be making excellent progress, and indeed […]

Day Nine Following the North Star to Massachusetts We reached Belhaven and anchored in a pleasant spot outside of the channel. After taking the dinghy ashore, we walked to the nearest supermarket for lettuce and hamburger meat, a six-mile roundtrip. The town of Belhaven was pleasant, if isolated. People in cars gawked openly at us […]

We weighed anchor in Fort Pierce at noon on Monday, June 7th. Taking a picture in homage to the place that had been our home nearly we a month, we proceeded out of Fort Pierce Inlet and into the open ocean. The offshore passage lasted some 80 hours. We established a round-the-clock system of two […]

Day Two on the Open Ocean between Florida and Bahamas The family had a leisurely breakfast before weighing anchor and motoring through the Fort Pierce Inlet, out of the Intercoastal Waterway and into the Atlantic Ocean. After following the shoreline south in the early afternoon, we turned the ship southwest and bore toward the Bahamas, […]